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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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[–] brando56894@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I have no idea, this was like 15 years ago haha It was probably Nero or Roxio. At this point I'm sure I could download the whole collection from somewhere.

[–] HatefulSpittle@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Probably in a nicer format, better quality and better compatibility. Would not be surprised if the box set required its own software to be installed to read the magazine

[–] brando56894@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah it had an installer and program to read everything, it wasn't just a simple collection of scanned pages. I got it at a computer show back when I was like 10 or 12, and when "computer shows" were actually a thing in the late 90s hahaha

[–] displayboi@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I recommend using Alcohol 120% since it has an option to ignore reading errors. Other programs just stop when encountering an error.

Although, yeah, it is probably already archived somewhere on the internet, but you never know.